{"id":22145,"date":"2014-07-07T15:47:50","date_gmt":"2014-07-07T13:47:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/?p=22145"},"modified":"2014-07-07T15:47:50","modified_gmt":"2014-07-07T13:47:50","slug":"browser-support-for-urls-beginning-with-double-slash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2014\/07\/07\/browser-support-for-urls-beginning-with-double-slash\/","title":{"rendered":"Browser support for URLs beginning with double slash"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

For some reason, I keep forgetting if double slash URLs are supported in older browsers or not. \u00a0Maybe if I post the answer<\/a> from this StackOverflow\u00a0question<\/a> here, I will remember it myself next time:<\/p>\n

This behavior was part of RFC 1808<\/a> (Section 4) which is about 16 years old, so every major browser should (and does) support this.<\/p>\n

Sadly, there’s a bug with IE7 and -8<\/a> that will make them download the resources twice if a protocol-relative URL is used on a link<\/em><\/strong> or @import<\/em><\/strong> – which shouldn’t be a big problem, but is ugly and should be kept in mind.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So, that might be a problem for the CSS, but the JavaScript and images should work just fine.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\n

For some reason, I keep forgetting if double slash URLs are supported in older browsers or not. \u00a0Maybe if I post the answer from this StackOverflow\u00a0question here, I will remember it myself next time: This behavior was part of RFC 1808 (Section 4) which is about 16 years old, so every major browser should (and … Continue reading Browser support for URLs beginning with double slash<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1,18,62,1334],"tags":[20,1190,1139],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-22145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-programming","category-technology","category-web-work","tag-browsers","tag-html","tag-javascript"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t